Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Save the Date: Feburary 2, 2010
We are expecting baby number 3 in Feburary! That will put a 3 year age gap between Kyle and the new baby, with Kyra being 4 1/2. Kyra is sooo excited (as long as its a girl, if its a boy she will ask for a refund). If you ask Kyle if he wants a new baby he says "NOOO BABY" and begins to cry. We are hoping that he will warm up to the idea. This pregnancy is definitely the worst of the 3. But hopefully only 2 1/2 more weeks of nausea!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Blog Award
My sweet friend Trish gave me a blog award! I am so grateful for my friendship with Trish. She is the type of mother that I hope I will become! She not only loves her children unconditionally, but teaches them how to be better people! She is also an inspiration to me on balancing her family/church/service/community activities/and taking care of herself. She give us unconditionally, and does things that I would never think to do, to make someone elses life easier. Thank you Trish for not only your friendship but for being an inspiration.
I want to pass this blog award on to a couple special ladies.
Renna
Renna is my sister. Soon after Renna was married, she moved up to Wyoming. So we don't get to see each other as often as we would like. Renna has to be one of the funnest moms in the world. Her kiddos are right by her side "helping" her with everything. I'm sure she could get more done, with less of a mess, and in a shorter time, but instead she allows her kids to spend time with her and learn. Ever since we got back from Wyoming, Kyra asks each day, when we are going back to see Aunt Renna. I'm so glad she decided to start a blog, so that I can see pictures of her cute little kiddos. Renna has also saved me a many a times, with her Family Recipe blog. Thanks Renna, love you!
Racheal Bishop
Rachael and I met, here in Tucson, when Kyra and and her little Thatcher were barely 2! She recently moved back East, so her husband could attend MIT. I miss her funny sense of humor, her example, and simply hanging out with her! I can't wait (hopefully) for her to move back! I love checking out her blogs. I am always in a good mood when I finish reading her blog. I love reading all of the fun adventures her cute family goes on! She also has a craft/idea blog. She has such great taste and style!
Sandra Nixon
I just smile every time I read her blog. Sandra is such a beautiful person, with such a wonderful personality. Her husband has deployed more times than anyone I have ever met, and I have never heard her complain, not even once! She is so humble, sweet and friendly. She has a smile, and a ear to listen with for whoever needs one. Thank you for your friendship, and I can't wait for you to come back!
Last but not least, Angela from the Craft Closet. Angela NEVER ceases to amaze me with her beautiful cards and scrapbook pages. Angela is a perfect mother. She has 3 of the most well manered boys I have ever seen! She is so creative, a hard worker, and a fantastic listener. In addition to those things she is a fantastic teacher. She is so willing to share her talents, and tools with everyone! I'm so grateful for everything you have taught me. Thanks!
I want to thank all of these woman for being such a postive influence in my life. Thanks!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Trip - Part 2
After we got done with Wyoming, we drove back to Los Alamos, New Mexico to spend a couple days with Karl's parents. We headed up to Bandelier National Park for a picnic, and to play in the stream. Kyra loved the stream....Kyle liked...looking at it. (I of course forgot my camera that day). Then on Monday, we drove to Albquerque so Karl could catch a flight to Arkansas for work. I met up with Karl parents at the Rio Grande Zoo. They have an area, where you can buy little cups of nectar, and feed it to the Lorakeets. Kyra loved feeding the birds....Kyle liked....looking at the birds.
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After the zoo I headed to Roswell NM, to spend a couple days with the Irwins who used to live here in Tucson.
The first day we went to the Alien Park. Both sets of kiddos, Bailee and Kyra, and Kyle and Eli climbed the mountain!
The next day we went to the bottomless lakes. This was a lot of fun!! Kyra loved the water....Kyle liked...looking at the water.
Kyra and Bailee
Kyra lou.
Bailee swimming like an expert!
Cute Eli bug!
Kyle did like plopping.
Kyles happy spot.
That night we went to the Roswell Zoo.
We also fed the ducks.
Thanks so much guys for letting us come hang out for a couple days, so we were home alone!! We had a great time.
After Roswell, I drove home (only 8 hours at this point) with the kiddos, and got home Wed. afternoon. My garden went CRAZY while I was gone!
The zuchine was about to take over the world!
And I finally got some tomatoes!!! Whoo Hooo!
And my raspberry bush is still alive!!
So..now the funny story (well funny now...)
I got home on Wed. afternoon. Of course after being gone for 2 weeks we didn't have anything in the fridge, but if I put the kiddos back in the car to go get milk that night I would of had a mutany on my hands. So the next morning at 7:45 the kids were hungry. I could of just gone to the grocery story, but I needed to get my week supply of food, but hadn't made a list yet. I just needed milk to get past breakfast. So I put the kiddos in the van, and just went to the gas station down the road to get a half gallon. I didn't take my debit card, just cash, and I didn't take my cell phone. It was charging, I was only going to be gone for 3 minutes. I also didn't take a diaper bag, no wipes, no diapers. We get the milk, and head home. I open the garage door, get the kids unloaded and go to open the door from the garage into the house. Its locked. Oh yeah..I was paranoid about being home by myself and locked it last night. Okay, I will go through the front door. Oh wait...I gave my house keys to the house sitters. Okay, don't panic. There has to be a window that is open..we always have a window open. Nope, we made sure they were all closed and locked before we left. I know my parents are coming to my house to drop off the dogs, but not until 10AM. So in 2 hours. But they do have a house key! I don't have my cell phone. I can't call them to come early. I can't leave, because if they were to come early and I missed them, they wouldn't know to leave the door unlocked, and I would still be locked out. Okay, I went out back this morning, there is a chance that I left the sliding glass door unlocked. So I drop the kids over the fence. Kyra checks the door, nope its locked. Okay at least we can play out back in the shade. So I then try and jump the fence. Okay you can stop rolling on the floor laughing. I look around in the garage, and find an OLD 2 feet by 1 foot knock together cube bookcase from Walmart. I can stand on that, and then fling my leg on the top of the fence. I jump on, and it breaks. My leg goes through the top, and my leg gets ripped by a nail the entire way down. I am now bleeding, quite a bit. My leg and sandel are both covered in blood. So I pull the kids back over the fence, and resign myself to the fact that we have to hang out in the van for a while. Well me being the good wife that I am *wink wink, COMPLETELY cleaned out the van so Karl wouldn't have to do it when he got home. So if this had happened the night before I would have had wipes, diapers, snacks, even a DVD player for crying out loud. Now I have a pine tree air freshener. So the kids are just running around the van, and then since Kyle isn't used to the heat anymore, he gets a nose bleed, and has wiped the blood all over his face. Just awesome! Okay, I look in the garage and I find a roll of paper towels. I tourniquet my leg, and clean Kyle up. And then the worst case scenario happens....Kyra says "Mom I have to poop." Really...serious...really. Yes, I let my daughter poop in our front yard. It was soooooo gross. My parents finally get there at about 9:45. Karl calls a couple hours later. I tell him the events of the morning and he says "Oh you should of unlocked the door from the garage to the house before you left." Really...I hadn't thought of that in the 2 hours I was sitting the van, with blood and poop issues. He then tells me that his flight HAS BEEN DELAYED, and he wouldn't be getting to the airport until 11 PM that night. (The kids were actually fine, getting them out of bed to go pick him up, and putting them back in bed..neither woke up.) Lets just say Dr. Phil will be hearing about this story.
P.S. Karl then told me, while we were on vacation...actual good timing on his part, that starting the middle of July to Thanksgiving, he is going to the night shift at work. 2 PM to about 1 AM. 5 months!! I barely survived the 6 weeks last time. Ugh. I'm going to starting packing for Dr. Phil and might as well book Oprah while I'm there.
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After the zoo I headed to Roswell NM, to spend a couple days with the Irwins who used to live here in Tucson.
The first day we went to the Alien Park. Both sets of kiddos, Bailee and Kyra, and Kyle and Eli climbed the mountain!
The next day we went to the bottomless lakes. This was a lot of fun!! Kyra loved the water....Kyle liked...looking at the water.
Kyra and Bailee
Kyra lou.
Bailee swimming like an expert!
Cute Eli bug!
Kyle did like plopping.
Kyles happy spot.
That night we went to the Roswell Zoo.
We also fed the ducks.
Thanks so much guys for letting us come hang out for a couple days, so we were home alone!! We had a great time.
After Roswell, I drove home (only 8 hours at this point) with the kiddos, and got home Wed. afternoon. My garden went CRAZY while I was gone!
The zuchine was about to take over the world!
And I finally got some tomatoes!!! Whoo Hooo!
And my raspberry bush is still alive!!
So..now the funny story (well funny now...)
I got home on Wed. afternoon. Of course after being gone for 2 weeks we didn't have anything in the fridge, but if I put the kiddos back in the car to go get milk that night I would of had a mutany on my hands. So the next morning at 7:45 the kids were hungry. I could of just gone to the grocery story, but I needed to get my week supply of food, but hadn't made a list yet. I just needed milk to get past breakfast. So I put the kiddos in the van, and just went to the gas station down the road to get a half gallon. I didn't take my debit card, just cash, and I didn't take my cell phone. It was charging, I was only going to be gone for 3 minutes. I also didn't take a diaper bag, no wipes, no diapers. We get the milk, and head home. I open the garage door, get the kids unloaded and go to open the door from the garage into the house. Its locked. Oh yeah..I was paranoid about being home by myself and locked it last night. Okay, I will go through the front door. Oh wait...I gave my house keys to the house sitters. Okay, don't panic. There has to be a window that is open..we always have a window open. Nope, we made sure they were all closed and locked before we left. I know my parents are coming to my house to drop off the dogs, but not until 10AM. So in 2 hours. But they do have a house key! I don't have my cell phone. I can't call them to come early. I can't leave, because if they were to come early and I missed them, they wouldn't know to leave the door unlocked, and I would still be locked out. Okay, I went out back this morning, there is a chance that I left the sliding glass door unlocked. So I drop the kids over the fence. Kyra checks the door, nope its locked. Okay at least we can play out back in the shade. So I then try and jump the fence. Okay you can stop rolling on the floor laughing. I look around in the garage, and find an OLD 2 feet by 1 foot knock together cube bookcase from Walmart. I can stand on that, and then fling my leg on the top of the fence. I jump on, and it breaks. My leg goes through the top, and my leg gets ripped by a nail the entire way down. I am now bleeding, quite a bit. My leg and sandel are both covered in blood. So I pull the kids back over the fence, and resign myself to the fact that we have to hang out in the van for a while. Well me being the good wife that I am *wink wink, COMPLETELY cleaned out the van so Karl wouldn't have to do it when he got home. So if this had happened the night before I would have had wipes, diapers, snacks, even a DVD player for crying out loud. Now I have a pine tree air freshener. So the kids are just running around the van, and then since Kyle isn't used to the heat anymore, he gets a nose bleed, and has wiped the blood all over his face. Just awesome! Okay, I look in the garage and I find a roll of paper towels. I tourniquet my leg, and clean Kyle up. And then the worst case scenario happens....Kyra says "Mom I have to poop." Really...serious...really. Yes, I let my daughter poop in our front yard. It was soooooo gross. My parents finally get there at about 9:45. Karl calls a couple hours later. I tell him the events of the morning and he says "Oh you should of unlocked the door from the garage to the house before you left." Really...I hadn't thought of that in the 2 hours I was sitting the van, with blood and poop issues. He then tells me that his flight HAS BEEN DELAYED, and he wouldn't be getting to the airport until 11 PM that night. (The kids were actually fine, getting them out of bed to go pick him up, and putting them back in bed..neither woke up.) Lets just say Dr. Phil will be hearing about this story.
P.S. Karl then told me, while we were on vacation...actual good timing on his part, that starting the middle of July to Thanksgiving, he is going to the night shift at work. 2 PM to about 1 AM. 5 months!! I barely survived the 6 weeks last time. Ugh. I'm going to starting packing for Dr. Phil and might as well book Oprah while I'm there.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
1300 miles and back again
We had a fantastic time on vacation these past two weeks. On the way up to Wyoming, we broke the traveling days into 8 hour chunks. The kids were FANTASTIC!! This is what the sky looked like pretty much the entire way up.
I had a lot of stuff for the kiddos to do in the car..books, toys from the dollar store, they did a little bit of this...
We did some coloring..
Played some games...
And of course played with cars...
We got a really late start the first day, because we waited until Kyra was done with preschool, so we pulled into Los Alamos, NM, at Karl's parents house at about 9 PM for a quick overnight pitstop. We of course had to stop at Chili Works for a GREEN chile breakfast burrito the next morning.
We then stopped in Denver over night and met up with some friends that use to live in Tucson. We went to the Denver zoo, which is a great zoo! Unfortuanetly I didn't get tons of pictures because this was Kyle during the first picture...
And then for all of the following pictures I tried to take...
After the zoo we headed back to the Lear's house. The kids were like little energizer bunnies. They just ran, and chased, and wrestled throughout the house. The funniest thing for them, is that the Lear's have an huge unfinished basement, which was perfect for riding bikes, and crashing into the padded walls.
The next morning we drove the rest of the way to Gillete, Wyoming to my sisters house. We knew we weren't in Tucson anymore Toto, when they were selling worms at the local gas station.
And this sign is posted on every street.
Kyra loved Trudy, and always had to have her arm around her all the time.
Calivin and Kyle are two peas in a pod...
After spending a couple days in Gillette, we went to Rapid City, South Dakota.
We stopped at Old McDonalds Farm. The fold down back seat in the van worked perfectly for our picnic lunches.
Kyra loved all of the baby animals. She couldn't get enough!
Kyle wasn't so sure of the animals. This was the look he had on his face the entire time.
He did like the Train ride....
He also loved the giant sandbox and playground. Here he is ready to go down the slide.
This is everyone looking at the fish pond.
We also went to Mount Rushmore...
**Side Comment: Once we got back to New Mexico, we went to Bandelier National Forest for a picnic. Kyra asked if were were going to Mount Rushmore again. Karl said no, but asked her if she remembered who was on Mount Rushmore. She said "Yep, sure do. Jesus and Santa."
We then made a quick stop at the Dinosaur park.
The next morning we stopped at Storybook Village. It is a FREE park, with statues and buildings from various stories. THE KIDS LOVED THIS PLACE!!
This little section of the park had a whales mouth, sitting over the top of a lake. Well both boys were told not to touch the water. So they worked out a system. One would hide in the whale's mouth, while the other would touch the water, and then they would switch. It was too cute!
Then that afternoon we went to the coolest miniture golf course I have ever seen. I forgot my camera, but as soon as my sister posts pictures I will grab some from her blog (Hint Hint :) The theme of the course was pirates, and at the end, once the kiddos turnrf in their clubs, they each got a gift bag of pirate stuff...eye patches, tatoos, earings. Here they are showing off their pirateness...
We then traveled back to Gillette for two more days of boardgames, food, and playing. There is a park not to far from my sisters house, that we would take the kiddos to.
Daddy and Kyra on the slide.
Kyle was wearing this super cute sandles, but he couldn't keep them on his feet. Here is Calvin trying to give him a hand.
Bryant, my brother in law, built his own recumbant bike! It was a lot of fun.
This was the main way we burned some kiddo energy!
We also got to go to the Children's Museum in Gillete. The kiddos had a blast here.
They had an exhibt, that showed pictures of what various diseases looked like under a microscope, and then they had little stuffed germs that looked like it was well. I thought it was only fitting, considering Kyra's history with the "flu bug" that we take a pictures!
This was the bubble exhibit at the Children's museum. THe bottome basin is filled with bubble solution.
When we left Gillette, we were going to stop again in Denver, but Kyle wasn't feeling that great so we decided to drive all the way back to Los Alamos...so 13 hours later the kids were getting a little silly/goofy.
Here is Kyra singing the song we made up.
More pictures to come of our last leg of the trip!
I had a lot of stuff for the kiddos to do in the car..books, toys from the dollar store, they did a little bit of this...
We did some coloring..
Played some games...
And of course played with cars...
We got a really late start the first day, because we waited until Kyra was done with preschool, so we pulled into Los Alamos, NM, at Karl's parents house at about 9 PM for a quick overnight pitstop. We of course had to stop at Chili Works for a GREEN chile breakfast burrito the next morning.
We then stopped in Denver over night and met up with some friends that use to live in Tucson. We went to the Denver zoo, which is a great zoo! Unfortuanetly I didn't get tons of pictures because this was Kyle during the first picture...
And then for all of the following pictures I tried to take...
After the zoo we headed back to the Lear's house. The kids were like little energizer bunnies. They just ran, and chased, and wrestled throughout the house. The funniest thing for them, is that the Lear's have an huge unfinished basement, which was perfect for riding bikes, and crashing into the padded walls.
The next morning we drove the rest of the way to Gillete, Wyoming to my sisters house. We knew we weren't in Tucson anymore Toto, when they were selling worms at the local gas station.
And this sign is posted on every street.
Kyra loved Trudy, and always had to have her arm around her all the time.
Calivin and Kyle are two peas in a pod...
After spending a couple days in Gillette, we went to Rapid City, South Dakota.
We stopped at Old McDonalds Farm. The fold down back seat in the van worked perfectly for our picnic lunches.
Kyra loved all of the baby animals. She couldn't get enough!
Kyle wasn't so sure of the animals. This was the look he had on his face the entire time.
He did like the Train ride....
He also loved the giant sandbox and playground. Here he is ready to go down the slide.
This is everyone looking at the fish pond.
We also went to Mount Rushmore...
**Side Comment: Once we got back to New Mexico, we went to Bandelier National Forest for a picnic. Kyra asked if were were going to Mount Rushmore again. Karl said no, but asked her if she remembered who was on Mount Rushmore. She said "Yep, sure do. Jesus and Santa."
We then made a quick stop at the Dinosaur park.
The next morning we stopped at Storybook Village. It is a FREE park, with statues and buildings from various stories. THE KIDS LOVED THIS PLACE!!
This little section of the park had a whales mouth, sitting over the top of a lake. Well both boys were told not to touch the water. So they worked out a system. One would hide in the whale's mouth, while the other would touch the water, and then they would switch. It was too cute!
Then that afternoon we went to the coolest miniture golf course I have ever seen. I forgot my camera, but as soon as my sister posts pictures I will grab some from her blog (Hint Hint :) The theme of the course was pirates, and at the end, once the kiddos turnrf in their clubs, they each got a gift bag of pirate stuff...eye patches, tatoos, earings. Here they are showing off their pirateness...
We then traveled back to Gillette for two more days of boardgames, food, and playing. There is a park not to far from my sisters house, that we would take the kiddos to.
Daddy and Kyra on the slide.
Kyle was wearing this super cute sandles, but he couldn't keep them on his feet. Here is Calvin trying to give him a hand.
Bryant, my brother in law, built his own recumbant bike! It was a lot of fun.
This was the main way we burned some kiddo energy!
We also got to go to the Children's Museum in Gillete. The kiddos had a blast here.
They had an exhibt, that showed pictures of what various diseases looked like under a microscope, and then they had little stuffed germs that looked like it was well. I thought it was only fitting, considering Kyra's history with the "flu bug" that we take a pictures!
This was the bubble exhibit at the Children's museum. THe bottome basin is filled with bubble solution.
When we left Gillette, we were going to stop again in Denver, but Kyle wasn't feeling that great so we decided to drive all the way back to Los Alamos...so 13 hours later the kids were getting a little silly/goofy.
Here is Kyra singing the song we made up.
More pictures to come of our last leg of the trip!
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